El Chapo's Desire to Have His Biopic Led to His Capture

Captured cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán appears to have
been brought low in part by a yearning to have a biopic made about him,
Mexico’s attorney general said on Friday as the country’s most wanted
man was paraded in front of the media.

El Chapo has often occupied a larger-than-life place in the national
imagination, an anti-hero in his home state of Sinaloa and the head of a
criminal empire trafficking cocaine on almost every continent.

According to attorney general Arely Gómez, his narcissism knew no
limits and he wanted to take his fame further, to the silver screen in
the form of a biopic. It ultimately led to his re-capture on Friday in a
tacky hotel in Los Mochis, a town of tomato growers on the Pacific
Coast.

Guzmán, who has twice escaped from prison, most recently in July 2015,
had started the process of making a biopic on a life in which he went
from rags to riches, from dropping out of school and selling oranges in
the street to landing on the Forbes list of billionaires. It was as if
he wanted his own version of “Narcos”, the popular Netflix series on the
life of slain Colombian kingpin Pablo Escobar – except while alive and
able to influence the casting and script....MORE